In this lesson, students will continue to read excerpts of "The Digital Revolution and the Adolescent Brain Evolution."

In this lesson, students begin to explore the idea of self-worth as a facet of identity. The text, "My Own True Name," is a first person narrative from the perspective of a Mexican American college student.

In this lesson, students will focus on analyzing text structure in the text, "Generation Z Stereotyped." Students will discuss generational identity.

In this lesson, students will read and analyze an informational text that acts as a bridge between the building background on neuroscience texts in this unit and the argument texts about the effects of screen time in the text, "Growing Up Digital."

This lesson combines a lesson on genre with an opportunity for students to write and experience how genre changes a situation. Students first share what they know about letters and discuss books that feature letters. They then compare and contrast letters written for different purposes and situations. Then, by examining letters in selected picture books, students see how genres have flexibility and can be used in different situations. Next, they practice this flexibility with genres by writing a story using a series of letters to tell the story—using a book they have recently read, rather than creating one of their own, so that they can see the effect of genre choice. Finally, students make final revisions to their letter-stories and share them with the class.

In this lesson, students research Old West figures using both electronic and print sources. They then use an online tool to compile and organize reading notes, research, and related ideas. The information that is gathered is then presented in a student-constructed driver’s license that includes who, what, when, where, and why they are important in United States history. This activity offers an alternative to the traditional research paper, as well as an opportunity for students to share their projects with their classmates.

This lesson includes an Internet exploration that focuses on the roles of the eye and brain in the perception of color. It includes an introduction to the anatomy of the eye, including the functions of rods and cones. It is recommended that students complete the first 2 activities (Light 1 and Light 2) prior to this activity.

In this lesson, students recognize loaded words when reading and purposefully use them in persuasive writing.

In his essay, Mandela explains his shifting understandings of freedom based on different stages in his life. Mandela explains how his perceptions of freedom evolved from wanting freedom for just himself to fighting for freedom for others, and concluding that denying freedom to others robs the oppressors of their own freedom. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This resource is a Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and characterization.

From the Standford University Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, this lesson, Love and Faith, introduces students to the music and poetry of the modern African American Freedom Struggle and challenges them to create their own creative works.

A series of worksheets with answer keys to help students of differing levels identify main ideas from selcted texts.

In this lesson and resource, students use charts and graphs to determine the main idea in a visual literacy exercise.

Resource 1: Students will interview a family or community member about a hurricane they experienced here in North Carolina. Students will document the responses on this template. Resourse 2: NASA How Do Hurricanes Form? Website

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea, characterization and inferences.

The emphasis of this lesson is on history and research rather than literature, selections from Jack London's The Call of the Wild are used to provide focus and structure for students' research in online databases of primary sources, and to serve as models of vivid narrative prose for students' own stories.

In this lesson, students will complete a mid unit assessment, focusing on gender identity and expectations.

This Achieve the Core 7th grade mini-assessment for The Long Night of the Little Boats by Basil Heater includes the text excerpt, quantitative and qualitative analyses of the text, question annotations, and supplemental materials so that students will experience an indepth understanding of the text.

This article examines what happens when a sugar planter tries to save his sugar crops by importing a few mongooses. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This article provides facts and history of the events leading to and after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in A.D. 79.